
A famous French filmmaker is hired by a major Hollywood producer to make a documentary on the state of post-Cold War Russia. The filmmaker, though, subverts the project by stubbornly remaining in France and casting himself as the title character of Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot," offering up a series of typically Godardian musings on art, politics, the nature of images and the future of cinema.

László Szabó
Jack Valenti: The producer

Jean-Luc Godard
The idiot: Prince Mishkin
Bernard Eisenschitz
Harry Blount

André S. Labarthe
Alcide Jolivet

Bénédicte Loyen

Polina Kutepova
the maid, Chekhov's sister

Kseniya Kutepova
the maid, Chekhov's sister

Irina Apeksimova
Anna Karenina
Aude Amiot
Mademoiselle Amiel / Anna Karénine

Marie Borowski
Benjamin Kraatz
Prince André